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"A searing debut novel centering around a gay-to-straight conversion camp in Mississippi and a man's reckoning with the trauma he faced there as a teen. Grad student Will Dillard has largely buried memories of the summer he spent at a camp intended to "cure" homosexuality. But when he finds out a horror movie based on the camp is hitting theaters, he's forced to face his past -- and his role in another camper's death. As he recounts the events surrounding...
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Ariel Stone is the perfect college applicant until a failed Calculus quiz sends his grades into a tailspin that can only be halted by a handsome tutor, but adding a burgeoning romance to his other commitments may push Ariel past his limit.
Senior Ariel Stone is the perfect college applicant: first chair violin, dedicated community volunteer, and expected valedictorian. A failed Calculus quiz is not part of his plan. As his grade slips further, he...
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"The boys of Kings Row are assigned a course of team building exercises to deepen their bonds. It takes a shoplifting scandal, a couple of moonlit forest strolls, and a whole lot of introspection for the team to realize they are stronger together than they could ever be apart"--
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New York City, 1990. Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and on his first date, quickly falling in love with Callum like the movies always promised. Fashion-obsessed Ben is eighteen and has just left his home upstate after his mother discovers his hidden stash of gay magazines. When Callum disappears, it leaves Adam heartbroken. Ben finds out his new world is more closed-minded than he thought. In a chance meeting near a hospital where Callum is being...
65) Out of the blue
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The Journey is the monthlong sojourn on land all teen merfolk must undergo. The rules are simple: Help a human within one moon cycle and return to Pacifica to become an Elder-- or fail and remain stuck on land forever. Crest is eager to get their Journey over and done with: humans are disgusting; they polluted the planet so much that there is a floating island of trash that is literally the size of a country. In Los Angeles with a human body and a...
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Nate and Cameron meet in a dingy Los Angeles club and discover they have much more in common than their love of an obscure indie band. But when Nate learns that Cameron is the heir to a soul-sucking record label-- the very one that destroyed his father's life-- the only evidence of their brief but intense connection is the blurry photo Cameron snaps of Nate's Sharpied Chuck Taylors. When Cameron's sister Tess posts the photo on Instagram, the internet...
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Luca's entire identity and future are entwined around dance until he loses his performing arts scholarship after a debilitating injury. Gutted and demoted to public school attendee, the only bright spots in his new future are two friends he quickly makes, but knowing that one is gorgeous, popular, and avowed heterosexual, Luca can't help feeling he is setting himself up for another heartbreak.
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Arek has managed to fulfill the prophecy (though somewhat ineptly) and save the Kingdom of Ere from its evil ruler. The quest is not over until they free the princess locked in one of the towers. Only the princess proves to be very dead, and Arek is stuck as king. Then he discovers that magic requires him to find a bride before his eighteenth birthday or wither away. But none of his female companions are interested, he does not want to marry a stranger,...
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Seventeen-year-old Evan struggles to deal with his mother's abuse and his new feelings for his friend Henry.
Evan Panos's strict immigrant Greek mother sees him as a disappointment. His workaholic father is a staunch believer in avoiding any kind of conflict. And his best friend, Henry, has somehow become distractingly attractive over the summer. His only escape is drawing, in an abandoned monastery that feels as lonely as he is. And Henry makes...
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After losing his older sister in a car accident, Kermit Sanders knows grief and its all-encompassing shadows. He receives an invitation to meet with the "Minus-One Club," a group of his schoolmates who have all suffered the tragic loss of someone they loved, and banded together as a form of moral support. Kermit’s secret crush, Matt-- the only out gay student at school-- is also a part of the group. Matt's positive headstrong approach to life...
72) Runebreaker
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Aidan is determined to rule and bring down the evil Howls. Meanwhile, Kianna will stop at nothing to liberate their world. And Aiden's infatuation with an Incubus named Tomas could be his undoing.
73) Teenage dirtbags
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"When Cameron Ellis dumps Phil Reyno and torpedoes his already-iffy reputation in the process, Phil hatches a plot to expose Cameron as the two-faced liar he truly is, recruiting his old pal Jackson Pasternak to help"--OCLC.
74) Stick
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Thirteen-year-old Stark "Stick" McClellan's brother has always defended him against those who tease him for his thinness and facial deformity, so when Bosten, having admitted he is gay, must leave home and their abusive parents, Stick sets out to find him.
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"Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year at two different schools, the boys find ways to spend...
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Dylan doesn't have a lot of experience with comfort. His room in the falling-down Village Estates can generously be categorized as "squalid," and he sure as hell isn't getting any love from his mother, who seemed to--no, definitely did--enjoy the perks that went along with being the parent of a "cancer kid." His only escape has been in the form of his favorite video game--World of Warcraft--and the one true friend who makes him feel understood, even...
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The ancient god has been resurrected and sealed inside Beru's body. Both of them are at the mercy of the Prophet Pallas, who wants to subjugate the Six Prophetic Cities; but the god is growing stronger. Far away, Anton is learning to harness his powers as a Prophet. He plans to lead Jude, Hassan, and Beru's sister Ephyra on a desperate quest to destroy the god, Pallas, and save the world from darkness-- even if it requires an unbearable sacrifice....
78) Skater boy
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"Stonebridge High's resident bad boy, Wesley "Big Mac" Mackenzie, is failing senior year--thanks to his unchecked anger, rowdy friends, and a tendency to ditch his homework for skateboarding and a secret photography obsession. So when his mom drags him to a production of The Nutcracker, Wes isn't interested at all . . . until he sees Tristan Monroe. Mr. Nutcracker himself. Wes knows he shouldn't like Tristan; after all, he's a ballet dancer, and Wes...
79) Totally Joe
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As a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old boy writes an alphabiography--life from A to Z--and explores issues of friendship, family, school, and the challenges of being a gay teenager.
80) Some girls bind
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In this novel in verse, teen Jamie has a secret--she binds her chest every day to feel less like a girl. She questions why she feels drawn to do this, why she can't tell her friends, and if she could be genderqueer.